Folding and wrapping machine.



No. 772,474. PATENTED OUT. 18, 1904. v0. OWENS. FOLDI NG AND WRAPPINGMACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 23. 1904.

NO MODEL.

' UNITED STATES Patented October 18,1904.

PATENT ()FFICE.

CHARLES owENS, oE'cHA TANooeA, TENNESSEE.

FOLDING AND WRAPPING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 772,474, dated October18, 1904. 7

Application filed May 23, 1904.

ing and wrapping magazines and belongs to the type ofmachines disclosedin Letters Patent of. the United States No. 728,879, dated March 17,1903, thoughI desire it understood that I do not limit myself in thisrespect. I

The present mechanism is adapted to wrap magazines without folding.

The invention. consists in the features and combination and arrangementof parts herein,

after described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an end view of the series ofrolls which as one illustration of. the manner in which the invention isapplied may take the place of the group of rolls Shown in said patentfor folding and wrapping the magazines. Fig. 2 is a rear view of thegroup of rolls shown in Fig. 1.

Of these rolls the pairs 1 and2 receive between them the magazine andthe wrapper, with the advance flap of the latter folded down upon themagazine. The roll 10 is cut away at its central portion at 8, Fig. 2,and in the space thus provided are arranged the arms 4, loose on theshaft 5 of the rolls 1. These arms carry fingers 6, screwed thereto at7, said fingers extending out beyond the plane of the periphery of theroll 1 and-curved to be concentric thereto, as shown in Fig. 1, thusforming shoulders or 'abutments for the edge of the paper or magazine tostrike against. The two arms on the shaft 5 are connected to move as onebody, and said arms are held normally in the position shown in Fig. 1 bya spring 8, attached to one of the arms and attached also to the frame.This spring holds the arm against the stop 9 on the frame. A stop 10 onthe frame is intendedto limit the" move.- ment of the arms under thepressure from'the magazine, as will be hereinafter described. A thirdroll, 1, is journaled in. the same horizon Serial No. 209,393. (Nomodel.)

tal plane with the shaft 11 of the roll 2, and

disclosed in the patent referred to, the operation 1s as follows: Theincoming magazine, 1s 1 fed to the bite of the rolls 1 and 2 with itsadvanced lap folded over onto the magazine. The advanced edge enters thefingers 6, and the pressure from the magazine forced onward by the rolls1 and 2 will force the arms to yield against the spring-pressure untilarrested by the stop 10. The advance edge of the magazine will thus bearrested, and the rolls 1 and 2 continuing their'action the mag azine iscaused to bend or bulge toward the bite of the rolls 2 and I, and it-istherefore grasped by the rolls 2 and 1 and they begin to draw itthrough, the spring 8 acting to press the arms 6' back toward theirnormal, position, and thus follows up the movement of themagazinethrough the rolls 2 1 and assists ini-..

tially in presenting the magazine to the said rollers. In following upthe movement of the advance edge of the magazine the fingers guide theadvanced lap of wrapping-paper more surelyinto the first fold of themagazine than would otherwise be the case. The action just described isrepeated by the passage of the magazine between the rolls 2 and l, themagazine being received by the fingers 6 after leaving the bite of therolls 2 l and said magazine being directed to the bite of the rolls 2and 2. I

From the above it will be seen that the yielding fingers follow up themovement of the magazine and, indeed, assistin making the "said magazineenter the bite of the next pair of rolls. In following up the movementof the magazine the fingers maintain control of. the magazine, and thusaccurately guide the same between the rolls.

With this apparatus it is also possible to wrap the magazines Withoutfolding, and it will also be clear, of course, that the foldingrolls maybe employed simply to fold and not to Wrap.

It will be observed that the movable arms, with the fingers carriedthereby, provide, in effect, a yielding guide and abutment for themagazine, cooperating with the rolls to fold or Wrap the same.

The arms 4 are connected by the bar 4*, and these and the bar formpractically one body, constituting the tucker-arm. I do not limit myselfto this construction, as the tucker may consist of one piece from end toend.

I claim 1. In combination with a pair of rolls, a yielding abutment toreceive the magazine or other .article passing between the said rolls,

said abutment moving concentric with the axis I of one of the rolls anda third roll to which the magazine is directed by the abutment,substantially as described.

2. In combination, with a pair of rolls, a yielding guide and abutmentto receive the magazine therefrom, comprising a curved finger concentricwith the axis of the roll about Which the abutment turns, .and a thirdroll to which the magazine is directed from the abutment.

'3. In combination, a pair of rolls, abutment means supported loose onthe axis of one of said rolls and adapted to receive the magazine frombetween the rolls, and a third roll to which the magazine is directed.

4:. In combination, in a machine of the class described, rollers formoving the magazine or the like, and an abutment against which themagazine strikes, said abutment being movably supported to retract underpressure of the magazine, the said rolls continuing to act on themagazine after the same strikes the abutment, and the said abutmentfollowing up the movement of the magazine toward the bite ofthe rollersand as it is moved by passing between one of said rolls and a thirdroll,

forming the said bite, substantially as described.

5. In combination, in folding mechanism, rolls for moving the magazine,and an abutment or shoulder against which the edge of the magazinestrikes to be initially bent by the feeding action of the rolls, saidbent portion being directed to the bite of another roll, said abutmentor shoulder moving back under pressure from the magazine and followingup themagazine as it passes to the bite of said other roll.

6. In combination, a group of rolls, an abutment or shoulder againstwhich the edge of the magazine strikes when fed by a pair of rolls, saidabutment moving back under pressure from the magazine, and a third rollacting with one of the pair of the rolls to which the magazine isdirected, said abutment following up the advance movement of themagazine toward the bite of the rolls.

7. In combination, a group of rolls, a plurality of movable abutments orshoulders against which the magazine strikes to cause their retraction,said group comprising a pair to feed the magazine to the first abutment,and a third and fourth roller each cooperating with one of the pair ofrollers and with the second movable abutment, substantially asdescribed.

8. In combination a pair of rolls, an abutment or shoulder against whichthe magazine or other article strikes after passing between the saidrolls, said abutment moving back away from the bite of the rolls underpressure of the magazine and a third roll to the bite of which themagazine is directed by the combined action of the pair of rolls and thereturning or forward movement of the abutment, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES OWENS.

Witnesses:

R. E. \VILLIAMs, JOHN T. LILLARD.

